Music: Sensation at La Scala

Oldtimers at La Scala pronounced her singing sensational. All Milan has
been talking this winter about Maria Meneghini Callas. This powerful
new dramatic soprano is an American-born singer who has never sung a
note in the land of her birth. Her parents, who came from Greece, took
her on a lengthy visit to the old country when she was 13, and she has
been in the U.S. only once since then.

On her first opening night at La Scala, last December, 30-year-old
Soprano Callas made a smashing hit in Verdi's Sicilian
Vespers. Milan critics...